{"id":663430,"date":"2010-02-12T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2010-02-12T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:33:16","slug":"911-reservations-actual-fraud-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/663430","title":{"rendered":"911 Reservations: Actual fraud? [UPDATED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a disturbing update on the 911 Reservations <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/2010\/02\/12\/latest-on-911-reservations\/\">story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I got an email from Louise Maurice, who purchased a Valentine&#8217;s Day reservation at Repast restaurant from 911 Reservations for $40. That amount was charged to her credit card through the service&#8217;s PayPal account.<\/p>\n<p>I also spoke to Repast&#8217;s owner, Joe Truex, who said that he spoke on the phone to a man who tried to reconfirm the reservation and expressly told him that it would not be honored.<\/p>\n<p>When I spoke with Gwinnett County district attorney Danny Porter about the legality of this service, he said it was fine as long as the administrators didn&#8217;t sell a reservation they knew wouldn&#8217;t be honored.<\/p>\n<p>That begs the question: Does this sound like a case of theft by deception, pure and simple?<\/p>\n<p>(UPDATE: At 4:25 p.m., Maurice received an email from 911 Reservations with a refund.)<\/p>\n<p>(Full disclosure: I do know both Maurice and Truex socially.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a disturbing update on the 911 Reservations story: I got an email from Louise Maurice, who purchased a Valentine&#8217;s Day reservation at Repast restaurant from 911 Reservations for $40. That amount was charged to her credit card through the service&#8217;s PayPal account. I also spoke to Repast&#8217;s owner, Joe Truex, who said that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MAu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}